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This 3 page paper looks at the way that employee planning may be aligned with business planning through the use of strategic human resource management that can help with planning and the provision of resources needed for organizational goals to be achieved. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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and their skills and knowledge, and how the firm can leverage the existing human resources, or develop new resources. There is a great potential benefit from aligning human resource planning
with business planning. An approach that can be useful is that of strategic human resources management. Schuler (1992) defines Strategic human resource management (SHRM) as "all those activities
affecting the behavior of individuals in their efforts to formulate and implement the strategic needs of business", Wright and McMahan (1992) define it as "The pattern of planned human resource
deployments and activities intended to enable the firm to achieve its goals". It may be argued that the strategic use of human resources go back to
the times of scientific management of Taylor as well as with the way that humans resources were managed by the Gilbreath in order to ensure that the employees were achieving
the organizational goal in the way they performed, however this was undertaken with a hard approach (Huczyniski and Buchanan, 2007). The key is the underlying strategy of the approach.
More recent development that reveals the understanding of SHRM include hard approaches such as the matching model, or hard approach to HRM. The Matching model, also known
as the Michigan model, the management of employees is seen in terms of the management of assets. To achieve the right match between the organisation needs and the HRM processes
and strategies there five main process that form the basis of any HRM practice based on this school of thought. These are the need to ensure that the most suitable
people are selected for the business, that the performance is undertaken in order to meet the business objective. That appraisals should be undertaken which will provide feedback to employees, that
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